Tainan
East Gate Barclay Memorial Church is one of the 1,200 Presbyterian
Church in Taiwan Presbyterian Church belongs, was founded in May 1903,
this year has 108 years of history. The following is a brief for an introduction:

This
Council the creation in May the Lord after 1903 years, the British
declared teachers Buck officiating priest his wife, opened particularly
concerned about the new building hospital staff, and declared teachers'
home served as maid who's faith life, to borrow Tainan Theological
Seminary teachers quarters to hold night party, sermon. Three years after the Pacific territory of the Church 18 years later, upgraded to a church on March 9, 1921.

This will be the history can be divided into four periods. The first phase of the creation of (since only founded in 1903 to the 1926 completion of the offering hall). The second phase of the construction period (since the 1927-1944 war that ended). The third period is the "transition period" (After the retrocession of Taiwan, from 1945 to 1970). The fourth for the "modern period" (1971-present). In
the initial creation, animal husbandry are British missionaries serve
as dean of the school of these preachers are God, Professor. This
period is not only enthusiastic about the mission, also was outdated
bad customs such as footbinding, opium, married mistress radically
reformed. Period
of construction in the second period to complete the construction of a
large chapel (which was south of the Chapel), and buy across the
kindergarten land of 1000 square meters floor area. This
period more emphasis on the construction of the Sunday School and
Evergreen Middle School Evergreen Girls' Senior High School students to
stay missionary work. Students
every Sunday to participate in the activities of the church Sunday, did
not change until the 1972 Girls' High School in the Evergreen Chapel
gathering. In this period through the fire of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, the believers living in poverty and oppression. In
the third period of the transition period, gradually transition to
student-centered preaching to community-centered preaching, and through
the PKU (doubly movement) years, focusing on the whole family for Christ
movement. In
the modern era of the fourth period, and pay more attention to the love
and concern for society and local and stately building of the education
building to play a greater church's function, Chung-nin, universities
and community development ministry.

This
Council in the new building Hospital, Tainan Theological College,
Evergreen Middle School and Evergreen Girls, it is 108 years, a very
close relationship between these schools, hospitals. East Gate Church is the venue of these schools, these schools the resources of the Church of the East Gate.

Will be set up to teach the past 108 years, by calendar nine fifteen pastor to God's vineyard cultivation in this district. They are: first yellow as soon as the life pastor (Rev. Huang Chang hui your father, Tainan will be any speaker). Second
Pan Daorong pastor (first deputy animal husbandry, re-based, animal
husbandry, Pan pastor who the director of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church
Sunday School). Third
YANG Shi Yang pastor (former Tainan Theological Seminary professor,
speaker of the southern part of the General Assembly, the chairman of
the Federation of hymns Committee, creation hymn 33). Pastor
fourth Ren Liangxiu Germany (a former professor at Tainan Theological
College in meeting the long twilight years to develop a number of
churches in the north). Fifth
European security pastor (former Speaker of the Eighth Federation of
animal husbandry, the oldest one in any of the past two decades, is the
church with one to many of progress). The
fifth hire another deputy, animal husbandry, Chen Epiphany Pastor
(South East Asia Graduate School of Theology Ethics Ph.D., a former
professor of Tainan Theological College). Sixth Ren Chenkun South pastor (former Speaker of Tainan in the 51st). Seventh Chen Bocheng priest (a former 32nd Federation of Speaker of the Federation Board of Education chairman). Eighth
Wang Mingren pastor, hire another have the Luo Qizong pastor (now sub
Deguang church pastor) and Li Wang Shujuan pastor for education pastor. The ninth term of Luo Rengui pastor (currently).

108 years of this Council, consists of seven churches. First in 1933, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the church was divided into "Takasago-cho sermon" (South Gate Church). In
1936, Dr. Song Shangjie will sermons, the rise of the gospel enthusiasm
and divided into the posterior wall of the house sermon (Rende Church).
1961 divided Dongning Church, to preach the gospel to college students and teachers. For Education in 1963, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary is divided into "A church of". 1976, adoption of the rich and powerful Church "the Tainan mission will be opened. Acceptance of 1987 Evergreen Church "as the Council for Education 90th anniversary, and then divided the a Tekong church. Divided seven churches, the churches are to grow, this is the glory of the mother church. Ou,
the pastor once described the East Gate Church: "East Gate pro like an
old hen, while Romaine, Utah for a long time to lay eggs". This is really God's grace.

In the past 108 years of history, the East Gate Church has created a lot of church history. For example: in the Qing Dynasty, the first advocate to reform the bad customs, such as foot-binding, married mistress, opium. This chapel completed in 1926, Taiwan's largest inter-church, can accommodate more than 500 people. Established
by the first female elders of the church, they are the Gong Ruizhu and
Pan Suxiu two female elders, was established in 1926. The first concern of the student missionary Church and operates the House for the purposes of student religious life training. Hymns
team was established in 1927 (at that time known as the East Gate
church praise group) from Evergreen Middle School and Evergreen female
high school students among the special election music score good by the
composition, was south of the church's first and number up to the hymns
team, foreigners, said Taiwan's Church as the "singing Church "(Singing church) never came. Tainan
in any of the first Speaker of the Church's first pastor, yellow as
soon as the life pastor in 1930, he was elected in Tainan in meeting
long. Taiwan
employed two pastor of the Church, the 1930 yellow as soon as the life
pastor in any additional Pan Daorong pastor as deputy, animal husbandry.
Taiwan churches letterpress printing Weekly: East Gate Church weekly in the January 1932 issue. Pastor
Huang Chang-hui took office in 1949, this origin of the president of
the Tainan Theological College, which is the first Taiwanese Seminary. The
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan first overseas missionaries
CHEN Xiao Zan (parent Pastor Chen Jin contingent) of the Church was
born in 1959, sent the Jia Louxuan North Marden taught. A
church three people four times as the Federation of the Speaker, which
is the Church the only records they are: Huang Chang hui pastor as 4 and
12 session of the Federation of Speaker, Ou, Pastor served as Speaker
of the 8th, Chen Bocheng priest as the first 32nd Speaker. S.
Song pastor of this church was born (in August 1997 has served as
president of the Tainan Theological College) was elected President of
the World Alliance of Reformed Church Union (WARC), which is the first
Taiwanese elected to the highest office of international religious
organizations (the alliance of 164 countries 221 church organizations consisting of believers about 8000 million).